A supermassive black hole’s intense gravity can cause stars to orbit around it in a particular way. Astronomers tracked the orbits of several stars near the center of the Milky Way to prove it houses a supermassive black hole, a discovery that won the 2020 Nobel Prize. ...
NASA researchers combined years of data and new imaging techniques to learn more about a "tipped over" black hole that is moving in an unexpected way. The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084. Researchers have been aware of the galaxy for years, NASA said in a news ...
A supermassive black hole’s intense gravity can cause stars to orbit around it in a particular way. Astronomers tracked the orbits of several stars near the center of the Milky Way to prove it houses a supermassive black hole, a discovery that won the 2020 Nobel Prize. ...
Black Hole Discoveries Win 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics More Reuters David Haviland, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics and Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Goran K. Hansson announce the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics presented on the screen: Roger Pen...
NASA has identified a rapidly growing black hole that was long considered a critical "missing link" to the early universe. Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, joins CBS News' Lana Zak to discuss the latest discovery. Apr 20, 2022 07:20 ...
First-Ever Binary Stars Spotted Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole December 26, 2024 Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive… Space James Webb Reveals How Supermassive Black Holes Sculpt the Universe’s Largest Galaxies...
The discovery could spell bad news for theories that suggest the universe's most mysterious form of "stuff,"dark matter, is composed of primordial black holesthat formed in the first moments after theBig Bang. Dark matter is puzzling because, despite being effectively invisible because it does ...
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But the new discovery has toppled that assumption. The team, headed by Liu Jifeng, of the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), spotted the black hole, which has a mass 70 times greater than the Sun. Researchers named the monster black hole LB-1. ...
gravitational lensing to magnify the region of space where this galaxy, UHZ1, and its black hole are located. The telescopes used the light from a much closer cluster of galaxies, a mere 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, to magnify UHZ1 and its black hole much farther in the backgroun...